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Pros: It’s an interesting setting Cons: Enemies fairly faceless; Malcolm can get annoying at times Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Rhett C. Bruno’s Titanborn picks up in 2334, three hundred years after a meteorite ‘crippled’ the earth. Some people stayed…

Pros: The mystery and the differences between the children Cons: Didn’t age entirely well Rating: 4.5 out of 5 John Brunner’s Children of the Thunder is something I read in the late 80s, when I was in high school. It…

Willim Irvin Rice’s Flight of the Ferryman sounded good; I was looking forward to reading it. Something about the crew on a funeral ship being woken early because there’s life signs somewhere among the dead people. That sounds great! A…

Pros: Interesting to see the family dynamics play out Cons: Rough–could use some polishing; a handful of small plot holes Rating: 3 out of 5 C.J. Daniels’ Evolution’s End (Dark Frontier Book 1) takes place years after a nuclear war.…

I didn’t finish reading Vincent Vale’s Mobius. It’s about a man named Theron Mobius. He’s brilliant, he’s possibly insane, and his work on space travel has made him very useful. Unfortunately, after reading about a third of the book I…

Pros: Madelyn is a fascinating character who gets into all the trouble. Cons: Some small bits of confusion Rating: 4.5 out of 5 I’ve been waiting for Ike Hamill’s Madelyn’s Mistake ever since reading Madelyn’s Nephew. I’ve enjoyed the Ike…

Pros: Fantastic characters; entertaining and engrossing! Cons: I’d like to know a little more about what happened pre-story Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Admiral (An Evagardian Novel), by Sean Danker, gives us thrills and chills with a nice dollop of…

Pros: Stunning look at complex alien/human relations Cons: End resolved a little quickly Rating: 4.5 out of 5 In Octavia Butler’s Imago (Xenogenesis Series book 3), the small human/alien colony thrives, largely through the efforts of Lilith, Tino, and Nikanj.…

Pros: A look at new conflicts that arise out of first contact Cons: … Rating: 4.5 out of 5 Octavia Butler’s Adulthood Rites (Xenogenesis, Book Two)picks up after Dawn. Humans are making a life on what’s left of Earth. Lilith…